I hope Fennekin isn't fire/fighting. They've done that too many times already with Torchic, Chimchar, and Tepig. The rumors flying around the web suggest that Fennekin will be fire/psychic, though my speculation is fire/normal like other "fire dog/fox" pokemon like Growlithe or Vulpix.

Some rumors suggest Froakie will be water/fighting, but I speculate water/ice since his white wisps look like snow clouds on high mountains, "fro" is half of frozen, and there are frogs like the Alaskan wood frog who can freeze themselves into hibernation and generally survive winter climates.

Chespin's rumored to be grass/dark, but I speculate grass/fighting because of those slashing claws.

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ok so we got fairy types confirmed. It's kinda weird that clefairy is not confirmed as fairy type, it's got fairy in the name. And why marill? But hey, balance patch for dragons applied, no more OP outrage, we good.

I didn't really feel like we needed more than the first set of types... but things still have never been quite balanced. Depending on how this one plays out, I could see it adding that last bit of change that we needed.

It's true that the dragon type is pretty broken. It has, what, 2 weaknesses, and I think a single type that's resistant? I don't really mind, I'd rather they add new things to the core game (battles) rather than adding new things like Pokemon contests.

With fairy types to balance out dragon types... It's kinda like learning the art of balance as we go along. Like in gen 1, psychic types were unbalanced, so steel and dark types were introduced in gen 2. Of course, dark became quite powerful (it was possible to get through a healthy portion of Gold/Silver/Crystal with Totodile/Croconaw alone since bite was retconned as a dark move and was effective against a lot of things.)

And that's not even getting into the whole realm of dual-types. Sure, a powerhouse like fire/dark is possible but you also have magcargo- a fire/rock type that's doubly vulnerable to water making for a big but puny opponent.

It's kinda like how rock-paper-scissor evolved to rock-paper-scissor-lizard-Spock.

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